I’m Malcolm Groves.
I am a software executive and board advisor with 30+ years of experience across technical architecture and corporate strategy.
I help leadership teams turn technical complexity into commercial clarity.
I write about the intersection of technology and fiduciary duty to help directors provide better oversight.
Recent Writing
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There is an old industry cartoon where a development manager stands before a room of engineers and says: “I’ll go up and find out what they need. The rest of you, start coding.” For decades, that was a good punchline. It represented the height of mismanagement and the guarantee of a failed project. But as
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Your security strategy is only as good as your inventory, and right now, most of us are flying blind. The recently released IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025 highlights a shift that requires the full attention of both tech leadership and the Board. We love to talk about Zero Trust and Al-driven defence,
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Over the last 18 months, we’ve witnessed a fundamental shift in the AI landscape. We have gone from asking models for information to giving them the keys to our systems. This move from “Generative” to “Agentic” AI is not just a technical upgrade; it is a massive change in our organisational risk profile. The Singapore
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I’ve spent a lot of my career looking at the friction between how we want to work and how we actually deliver, and I have noticed a recurring issue that has nothing to do with the quality of the applications we build. We are hiring incredibly talented engineers to write high quality code, but we